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To James Madison from John Joy and Benjamin Joy, 26 April 1806 (Abstract)

From John Joy and Benjamin Joy, 26 April 1806 (Abstract)

§ From John Joy and Benjamin Joy. 26 April 1806, Boston. “Being informed by letters from our brother George Joy that he is desirous of the office of Consul for Rotterdam, we take the liberty of forwarding to you the inclosed recommendation of him for that Station, and of requesting your kind offices to promote his views.1 He is acquainted with the French, Spanish & Dutch languages and is, we believe, in other respects well qualified for the office. Should it be agreeable to the President to appoint him to this trust we have no doubt but he will discharge the duties imposed on him by it with zeal and fidelity, and in such a manner as will prove satisfactory to the Government of the United States.”

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Joy”). RC 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. The enclosure (2 pp.; addressed to JM) was the 26 Apr. 1806 petition of Thomas Handasyd Perkins and twenty-eight other Boston residents, including George Cabot and William Eustis, that George Joy be named consul at Rotterdam. Jefferson nominated Joy to the position on 2 Dec. 1807 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 2:59–60).

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    To James Madison from John Joy and Benjamin Joy, 26 April 1806 (Abstract)
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    Joy, John
    Joy, Benjamin
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    Madison, James
    Date
    26 April 1806

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    “To James Madison from John Joy and Benjamin Joy, 26 April 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0462. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, pp. 507–508.]